Big gov'ment, just cuz

George Will rehashes the decades old canard that conservatives value freedom and that liberals want to use the government reflexively to eradicate various inequalities. This reflex is supposed to explain why liberals, for instance, tend to favor government provided health care over employer-based health savings accounts. Not because of any inherent efficiency and simplicity in the government-run model. But because liberals don't know how else to get anything done. Something like that anyhow.

Along with that, he writes, "Conservatism embraces President Kennedy's exhortation to "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." I think that almost precisely the opposite is actually true.

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[JimPortlandOR]

Will George Will gather the will to will himself back to the total obscurity that he deserves? I haven't the will to either wait for that WIll to will, or the will to even think of reading or watching Will's will to be stupid in public.